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PauL RYAN, college students forced to move back in Some 78 percent of those surveyed in the Pew study say with Mom and Dad are the poster children for the bad economy. they’re satisfied with their living arrangements and 77 percent feel blessed to have dodged that bullet,” she says. But from a personal finance perspective, experts say returning feel upbeat about their future finances. “If there’s supposed to Moving back in with one’s parents may even make sense home can be a triumph. be a stigma attached to living with Mom and Dad through one’s for those who can afford a place of their own, others say. “Living “College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in late 20s or early 30s, today’s boomerang generation didn’t get at home promotes saving,” says Sheldon Garon, a professor of their childhood bedrooms staring up at fading Obama posters that memo,” Parker says. history at Princeton University and author of “Beyond Our and wondering when they can move out and get going with life,” It may also be part of a larger cultural shift: People are also Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves.” He says Ryan said at the Republican National Convention last week. getting married later in life and flying the coop later, Qian says. it could help students pay off the $1 trillion they now owe in It’s a growing trend: There are more adult Americans age To be sure, many young adults are living with their parents student loans. “There has been a staggering increase in student 34 or younger sleeping in their childhood bedrooms now than strictly because of joblessness, low wages or high housing costs. debt in the last few years,” Garon says. “It may make a lot of sense at any other time in the past 30 years, studies show. Nearly one- About one-third of 25- to 34-year-olds say they moved back or for young people to trim their costs.” quarter of those ages 20 to 34 were living at home between 2007 never left because of the economy, the Pew report found, up On a personal note, college graduates also reap the benefits and 2009, up from 17 percent in 1980, according to a study from 11 percent in 1980. But there’s a silver lining too. Nearly of having two mature roommates who can give them valuable released this month by Zhenchao Qian of Ohio State University.